Summer of AI

The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) along with campus partners from The University Library, Technology Services, NCSA, ATLAS and The Siebel Center for Design will host the Summer of AI at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout this summer-long series faculty and staff will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops, guest talks, and conversations on how AI impacts the future of teaching and learning.  

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    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/11/2025
    • Armory room 146 and online via Zoom

    This session will focus on the ease of creating custom AI agents using ChatGPT and Copilot. Attendees will first explore existing custom AI agents and then learn how to easily create their own specialized agent.

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am    6/24/2025
    • Armory room 146 and online via Zoom

    This hands-on workshop introduces practical strategies for using AI tools to support student success. Participants will explore how generative AI can be used to foster engagement, provide real-time feedback, enhance study habits, support diverse learning needs, and build academic confidence.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/8/2025
    • Armory room 156 and online via Zoom

    This hands-on beginners’ Large Language Models workshop will introduce the participants to text generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in streamlining teaching tasks and research. Other concepts will include: privacy/security, legal and ethical considerations of AI, and generative AI’s place in higher education.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/9/2025
    • Armory room 156 and online via Zoom

    This hands-on, hybrid, beginners’ workshop will introduce participants to image (still and moving) generating AIs. We will explore their features and capabilities and apply them in higher education settings. You will learn how to safely streamline your work, reduce production time, and easily generate visual aids for your classroom needs.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/10/2025
    • Armory room 156 and online via Zoom

    This hands-on beginners’ workshop will walk the participants through the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Please bring your laptops.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/22/2025
    • Armory room 156 and online via Zoom

    Creating digital storybooks to help students learn challenging concepts: Have your students create digital storybooks that explain and illustrate challenging course topics. This intermediate level workshop requires basic skills in using CoPilot, Adobe Firefly, a Adobe Express.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    7/30/2025
    • Armory room 146 and online via Zoom

    This session will focus on the ease of creating custom AI agents using ChatGPT and Copilot. Attendees will first explore existing custom AI agents and then learn how to easily create their own specialized agent.